Geraldine Ferraro

Gertrude Noone was the world's oldest living military veteran when she died in 2009 at age 110 in Milford. But it's not how long she lived, but how she lived that makes her memorable. Noone, by all accounts, marched to the beat of a different drummer — and loved every minute of it. "What's most important about her is that she was independent, really free-thinking, strong-willed and honorable person," Noone's grandniece, Deborah Woods of Milford, said. It's that attitude that undoubtedly prompted Noone, who was born in Ansonia in 1898, to leave her job as a clerk at Travelers in Hartford in 1943 and enlist in the Women's Army Corps to help...

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